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diff --git a/third_party/freetype-py/README.rst b/third_party/freetype-py/README.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 0308f3d..0000000 --- a/third_party/freetype-py/README.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,92 +0,0 @@ -FreeType high-level python API -============================== - -Freetype python provides bindings for the FreeType library. Only the high-level API is bound. - -Documentation available at: http://freetype-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ - -Installation -============ - -To be able to use freetype python, you need the freetype library version 2 -installed on your system. - -Mac users ---------- - -Freetype should be already installed on your system. If not, either install it -using `homebrew <http://brew.sh>`_ or compile it and place the library binary -file in '/usr/local/lib'. - -Linux users ------------ - -Freetype should be already installed on your system. If not, either install -relevant package from your package manager or compile from sources and place -the library binary file in '/usr/local/lib'. - -Window users ------------- - -You can try to install a window binaries available from the Freetype site or -you can compile it from sources. In such a case, make sure the resulting -library binaries is named 'Freetype.dll' (and not something like -Freetype245.dll) and make sure to place a copy in Windows/System32 directory. - -Usage example -============= - -.. code:: python - - import freetype - face = freetype.Face("Vera.ttf") - face.set_char_size( 48*64 ) - face.load_char('S') - bitmap = face.glyph.bitmap - print bitmap.buffer - -Screenshots -=========== - -Screenshot below comes from the wordle.py example. No clever tricks here, just -brute force. - -.. image:: doc/_static/wordle.png - -Screenshots below comes from the glyph-vector.py and glyph-vectopr-2.py -examples showing how to access a glyph outline information and use it to draw -the glyph. Rendering (with Bézier curves) is done using matplotlib. - -.. image:: doc/_static/S.png -.. image:: doc/_static/G.png - - -Screenshot below comes from the glyph-color.py showing how to draw and combine -a glyph outline with the regular glyph. - -.. image:: doc/_static/outline.png - -The screenshot below comes from the hello-world.py example showing how to draw -text in a bitmap (that has been zoomed in to show antialiasing). - -.. image:: doc/_static/hello-world.png - - -The screenshot below comes from the agg-trick.py example showing an -implementation of ideas from the `Texts Rasterization Exposures -<http://agg.sourceforge.net/antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/>`_ by -Maxim Shemarev. - -.. image:: doc/_static/agg-trick.png - - -Contributors -============ - -* Titusz Pan (bug report) -* Ekkehard.Blanz (bug report) -* Jānis Lībeks (bug report) -* Frantisek Malina (typo) -* Tillmann Karras (bug report & fix) -* Matthew Sitton (bug report & fix) -* Tao Gong (bug report) |